2024 OCVS Black History Month: Presented by: OCVS Literacy Committee & the OCVS Black Student Union by OCVS Black Student Union

Is there anything you liked or would like to suggest for next year?

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Include your questions and concerns here!

February 19th, 2024

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Post your favorite Martin Luther King Jr. quote and explain what it means to you!

February 20th, 2024

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Research a famous African-American civil rights activist and list 5 interesting facts about that person!

February 21st, 2024

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Wear the traditional colors of the African flag, or a shirt/hat that is representative of Black History Month, and snap a pic! Join us for our live lesson on Black Joy with Mrs. Parker!

The lesson will start at 2PM.

February 22nd, 2024

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Write a note to a person from African-American history that you are thankful for!

February 23rd, 2024

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Join us for a day on campus, wearing a shirt featuring your favorite famous African-American activist, actor, athlete, or artist!

Find us in the Media Center from 12:00 to 2:00 PM for fun activities, presenting, showcasing, and more.

You must sign up to RSVP to this event. Click the link to sign up. https://forms.gle/TNgdm2R7jgz2REQp6

Example, E

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Include your response in the description! Snap a photo of your outfits for Wear It Wednesday and Famous Friday and keep it appropriate and fun!

How do I make a new post?

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Click the plus button on the bottom right corner of the screen, and add your subject, description, and photos!

Please make sure to include your name and grade in the subject name when adding your post.

How do I join the OCVS Black Student Union?

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To be added to our further email communications, please use the form link on this post!

This club is open to OCVS students in grades 6th through 12th, and you must have a parent sign the club participation form to participate in our activities.

To stay updated with our next events, please follow our Instagram @ocvsbsu, and join our email list!

February 16th, 2024

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Research a famous African-American Historical Figure, and list 5 facts about this person. (Ideas: Shirley Chisholm, Claudette Coleman, Alexa Canady, Robert Smalls

Thurgood Marshall)

February 15th, 2024

sara_garsh — 2024-02-08 21:18:02 UTC

Research a famous African-American mathematician or scientist. List 5 important facts about this person. (Ideas: Bessie Coleman, Mae Jemison, Frederick McKinley Jones, Gladys West, Shirley Ann Jackson)

February 14th, 2024

sara_garsh — 2024-02-08 21:20:51 UTC

Research a famous African American author or poet. List 5 important facts about this person. (Ideas: Robert Sengstacke Abbott, Gwendolyn Brooks,Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou

Phyllis Wheatley)

February 13th, 2024

sara_garsh — 2024-02-08 21:26:00 UTC

Research a famous African American athlete or entertainer. List 5 important facts about this person. (Ideas: Alice Coachman, Gordon Parks, Ethel Waters, “Sugar” Ray Leonard

Marian Anderson)

February 12th, 2024

sara_garsh — 2024-02-08 21:30:03 UTC

Research famous African American Floridians. List 5 interesting facts about this person. (Ideas: Zora Neale Hurston, Mary McLeod Bethune, Sidney Poitier, Dion Sanders

Augusta Savage)

Week of February 26th to 29th

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Read a book on your SORA app that focuses on Black History Month. After you read the book, write a summary (or a short paragraph) to talk about the important parts of the book. You can also do a snip and sketch of one of your favorite paragraphs of the book and add an illustration to go with your writing. You can also listen to an audio book on SORA or read a magazine focusing on Black History Month.

How do I access my SORA app?

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To access your SORA App, follow these steps:

Log in to your launchpad:
https://launchpad.ocps.net
Sign in with your Username and Password.
Username: OCPS Student ID # 4084...
Password: Birthday Reverse Order yyyy/mm/dd
Click on the App called SORA OCPS
Click on the eBook you want to check out and read.
After reading your book, listening to the audio book, or reading the magazine article, post your summary below. (You can also post a snip and sketch as well).

Jesse Owens (Ian)

shadedddd — 2024-02-12 14:51:16 UTC

Jesse Owens won 4 gold medals in track in field during the 1936 Olympics.

Mary McLeod Bethune- By: Ms. Garsh

sara_garsh — 2024-02-12 16:16:28 UTC

Mary McLeod Bethune was born July 10th, 1875 in Mayesville, South Carolina. She was one of 17 children who received an education. She believed that education was important for everyone to attain. Bethune founded the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute in 1904, which later became Bethune-Cookman College. There is a park in New Smyrna Beach, FL called "Mary McLeod Bethune Beach Park," named in honor of Mary McLeod Bethune.

Zora Neale Hurston (Nalani, C)

nalanicaban — 2024-02-13 15:03:41 UTC

Zora Neale Hurston, born on January 7th, 1891, in Alabama, was an American novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist. She was well known for her artistic, musical, and creative influences, and was a fixture of NYC's Harlem Renaissance. Hurston wrote over 50 short stories, essays, plays, poems, and contributed to literacy, music, and black culture in a multitude of ways.

Simone Biles By: Ms. Garsh

sara_garsh — 2024-02-13 16:55:54 UTC

Simone Biles was born on March 14th, 1917 in Columbus, Ohio. Simone began her competitive gymnastics at the age of 8. Since then, she has won 7 Olympic medals including 4 gold, 1 silver, and 2 bronze. She stands 4 feet 3 inches tall. Simone wrote an autobiography, "Courage to Soar, A Body in Motion, A Life In Balance," in 2016. This book details her life experiences and her greatness in gymnastics.

Gwen Cherry By Journey. S

JoySparks — 2024-02-13 17:57:30 UTC

The first Black woman elected to Florida House of Representatives in 1970, and Carrie Meek served as the first Black woman in the Florida Senate starting in 1982

Misty Copeland Journey Sparkman

JoySparks — 2024-02-13 18:34:58 UTC

Misty Danielle Copeland is an American ballet dancer for American Ballet Theatre, one of the three leading classical ballet companies in the United States. On June 30, 2015, Copeland became the first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer in ABT's 75-year history.

Mrs. Calderon

2024-02-14 17:46:11 UTC

Langston Hughes is one of my favorite poets! Here are some interesting facts:

He wrote most of his poems when he was just a teenager.
He was called the Poet of the People.
He went to school to be an engineer.
He never got married.
"Harlem" (Dream Deferred) is one of my favorite poems by Langston Hughes.

Misty Copeland

JoySparks — 2024-02-14 19:53:26 UTC

She is married.

Her bday is September 10

First African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer

World's Best ballerina (to me :)

Likes to have fun

Amanda Gorman- By: Ms. Garsh

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Amanda Gorman is a famous writer and poet. She was born in 1998 in Los Angeles, California. She started writing stories and poems at a very young age. She attended and graduated from Harvard University. In 2021, she read a self written poem "The Hill We Cimb, " at Joe Biden's inauguration. She is the youngest poet to achieve this amazing goal!

Mae Jemison By: Ms. Garsh

sara_garsh — 2024-02-15 14:10:13 UTC

Mae Jemison was born on October 17th, 1956 in Decatur, Alabama. Mae graduated from high school at the age of 16 and enrolled at Stanford University in California. She earned her degrees in Chemical Engineering, African American Studies, and Medicine. She is well known for being the fist African American Astronaut to explore space. In 1992, she spent eight days orbiting the Earth on the Endeavour.

Shirley Ann Jackson Mrs. Calderon

2024-02-15 17:28:11 UTC

Shirley Ann Jackson is a very important part of our history! She is a physicist and former head of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), was one of the first two Black American women to receive a doctorate in physics in the U.S. and the first to receive a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. SHe is known for creating things like the touch-tone phone, portable fax machine and call waiting!

Mae Jemison (Isabella Q)

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Mae C. Jemison was born on October 17, 1956 in Decatur, Alabama. She always had a deep love for science and space and was disappointed to see there weren’t any women, nor african american astronauts. Mae was an amazing student and graduated high school at 16, afterwards she attended Stanford University, then Cornell Medical School. Mae joined the peace corps in 1983 and served as a medical officer in Africa. She knew English, Russian, Japanese and Swahili. After she saw Sally Ride (first American woman to go to space) on the news, Mae decided she wanted to apply to the astronaut program at NASA. After a while, she finally went on her first mission on September 12, 1992 with six other astronauts on the space shuttle “Endeavour” to make 127 orbits around Earth. Mae Jemison was mostly known because of her amazing achievement of becoming the first African American woman to travel to space.

Gladys west

JoySparks — 2024-02-15 20:51:16 UTC

Gladys Mae West is an American mathematician. She is known for her contributions to mathematical modeling of the shape of the Earth, and her work on the development of satellite geodesy models, that were later incorporated into the Global Positioning System

Gladys West

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Ella Baker By: Ms. Garsh

sara_garsh — 2024-02-16 14:21:19 UTC

Ella Baker was born on December 13th, 1903 in Norfolk, Virginia. Her mother was a guiding influence in her life who taught her the importance of education, helping people, and being a strong leader. Baker graduated from Shaw University at the top of her class in 1927. She spent much of her life advocating for the civil rights and human rights of African American people. She did a lot of behind-the-scenes work for the Civil Rights Movement with organizations like the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In 1940, she joined the staff of the National Association of Advancement for Colored People (NAACP) to bring equality to African Americans in all social settings. Later, in the 1950s, she worked for the New York City chapter of the NAACP, as President, to improve the lives of African American children in New York. Her legacy and work continue to live on today! Thank you Mrs. Baker for your amazing work and leadership!

Ian Quiroga

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THE GREATEST TO EVER PLAY BASKETBALL, MICHAEL JORDAN!!!!!!

Michael Jordan was born in Feburary 17, 1963

Michael Jordan has 6 NBA championships and is considered to be the greatest basketball player of all time.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Quote

sara_garsh — 2024-02-18 18:12:46 UTC

The Great Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." This quote is so meaningful to me. I interpret this quote to mean that we must all learn to love, respect, and help one another- no matter what. At the end of the day, LOVE wins!

Mrs. Nelson 5th grade

2024-02-19 05:26:43 UTC

The quote I chose is part of the National Parks Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park in Washington DC. It can be found on the South Wall.

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." Strength to Love, 1963.

This quote is meaningful to me because it is applicable to so many aspects of our daily lives. To me, this quote means that when we experience or witness something that is "wrong" we cannot respond in the same way. We must seek to be better than the "wrong," which can be done with what is "right."

Langston Hughes - Mrs. Torres

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Langston Hughes, Pioneer of Jazz Poetry and leader of the Harlem Renaissance. "Mother to Son" one of my favorite poems by him and within our LA1 course!

Zoe Johnson on Michael Jackson

2024-02-20 22:04:51 UTC

Michael Joseph Jackson was born in , on August 29, 1958.^[11]^[12] He was the eighth of ten children in the Jackson family, a working-class African-American family living in a two-bedroom house on Jackson Street. His mother, Katherine Esther Jackson (née Scruse), played clarinet and piano, had aspired to be a country-and-western performer, and worked part-time at Sears. His father, Joseph Walter "Joe" Jackson, a former boxer, was a crane operator at US Steel and played guitar with a local rhythm and blues band, the Falcons, to supplement the family's income.Joe's great-grandfather, July "Jack" Gale, was a US Army scout; family lore held that he was also a Native American medicine man.Michael grew up with three sisters and five brothers.

This has led him to being the King of Pop! Even though he has passed, his legacy still lives on!

Ruby Bridges - by Mrs. Decker

2024-02-20 22:13:54 UTC

Ruby was one of the first African American children to attend a previously white-only elementary school in Louisiana. Many restaurants, schools, businesses and other parts of the community were segregated at that time. So when Ruby, at the age of six, walked into school that day, she did so in the face of much opposition. In fact, her mom and U.S. marshals had to escort her past the shouts and threats from people who did not want her attending. One of the marshals who escorted Ruby into school that day said later, "She showed a lot of courage. She never cried. She didn't whimper. She just marched along like a little soldier, and we're all very very proud of her." Ruby Bridges became another example of the power children have to stand up for what is right and help bring about change that makes our world a better place.

Ruby Bridges By: Ms. Garsh

sara_garsh — 2024-02-20 22:19:30 UTC

Ruby Bridges was born on September 8th, 1954 in Tylertown, Mississippi. Bridges grew up during a time when the Jim Crow Laws segregated people in the South. In 1954, the Supreme Court of the USA ruled that segregating schools was unconstitutional during the Brown VS Board of Education trial. Later, in 1960, Bridges was the first African American to enter a desegregated school. Until this present day and time, Ruby Bridges continues to advocate for diversity and acceptance. She was awarded the Presidential Citizen's Medal in 2001 by President Bill Clinton.

~ Roberto Clemente ~ By: Ada Ellegood

2024-02-21 04:38:29 UTC

_{This week we are learning about Roberto Clemente! Proud of his African-American and Hispanic roots, Roberto}_{was a Puerto Rican professional MVP baseball player and US Marine. He played in Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates, broke records and was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He loved helping people, spending much of his free time in charity work, up to the day of his passing. Some of my favorite quotes from Roberto Clemente: "I don't believe in color, I believe in people" and "Any time you have an opportunity to make a difference in this world and you don't, then you are wasting your time on Earth."}

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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James Weldon Johnson(composer of "Lift Every Voice and Sing")

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Mrs. Rutherford:

I attended the Timucua Arts Amplifies Black Voices concert this past weekend, and Brandon Martin ( Disney and broadway singer - soon to be famous I'm sure!) sing a collection of musical pieces following the history of African Americans. He sang this piece and also shared the history of this Floridian-born songwriter who wrote this famous piece. Enjoy!

James Baldwin

2024-02-21 14:58:12 UTC

Mrs. Decker wearing a shirt that is stating "Honoring the Past, Inspiring the Future" for Black History Month.

2024-02-21 19:01:02 UTC

Joshua Johnson on Mae Jemison

2024-02-21 19:18:26 UTC

Mae Carol Jemison was born on October 17, 1956. She got educated at Stanford University (BA, BS) Cornell University (MD).She is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first African-American woman to go into space when she served as a mission specialist onboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992.

Principal Gurley

sara_garsh — 2024-02-21 19:58:58 UTC

Here's our BEAUTIFUL Mrs. Gurley wearing her Black History Month T-Shirt and her earrings made by the Massai tribe in Kenya, Africa.

Ms. Garsh

sara_garsh — 2024-02-21 20:48:25 UTC

Loving my Black History Month t-shirt representing the amazing artists, activists, and leaders of Black History!

The shirt reads:

Lead like Martin

Fight like Malcom

Think like Garvey

Write like Maya

Lead like Madam CJ

Speak like Frederick

Educate like W.E.B.

Believe like Thurgood

Challenge like Rosa

The Williams Sisters

2024-02-21 22:29:04 UTC

Serena and Venus Williams have left an indelible mark on the world of tennis and beyond. Together, they have dominated the sport for over two decades, amassing numerous Grand Slam titles and Olympic gold medals. Their remarkable success on the court is matched only by their commitment to advancing equality for African Americans. As two of the most prominent black athletes in history, Serena and Venus have used their platform to advocate for social justice and equality. They have shattered barriers, challenged stereotypes, and inspired generations of athletes to dream big and defy the odds. Through their resilience, determination, and unwavering advocacy, the Williams sisters have become symbols of empowerment and trailblazers for change, leaving an enduring legacy that extends far beyond the tennis court.

Anderson L

2024-02-22 15:13:31 UTC

Dear Michael Jordan, Thank you for carving and inspiring a path for many of the greats!

Atticus Pierce

2024-02-22 15:15:53 UTC

Thanks Marton Luther King jr. we are all ment to be =.

Mrs. Berhane 2/22/24

laceyberhane — 2024-02-22 15:16:10 UTC

Dear President Obama,

I am thankful for your service to our country as the first African American president! You are an inspiration to so many people and have paved the way for many other African American people.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Berhane

-Riah Thank you Martin Luther and others who helped out will our freedom.

2024-02-22 15:19:34 UTC

Jackie Robinson By: Z

2024-02-22 15:21:07 UTC

Jackie Robinson is one of the best players ever. He helped others with their dream of Baseball. I am grateful.

Can you still come on friday even if you don't have a shirt

JoySparks — 2024-02-22 15:41:12 UTC

Yes, you can! The event is open for all students K-12 at OCVS!!

Terriyana Jones

4804386507 — 2024-02-22 16:20:41 UTC

Dear Michael Jackson, thank you for using your music to bring people together. And for helping people around the world through your humanitarianism and music.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

sara_garsh — 2024-02-22 16:49:18 UTC

Dear Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr,

Thank you for your amazing life work in being an activist and a champion for human rights. Thank you for teaching all of us that in our world we need more love and less hate. Thank you for teaching us the value of appreciating and respecting diversity. Thank you for teaching us how to learn, grow, and build together. Thank you for teaching us all the value of empathy and love. You are such an amazing role model and an inspiration. I wish I could have known you.

Love,

Ms. Garsh

sara_garsh — 2024-02-22 16:54:18 UTC

Hey Journey!

Yes ma'am! You can still come on Friday if you don't have a shirt representing BHM. Just be sure to sign up on the sign up form so that we can count you in for attendance.

Hugs,

Ms. Garsh

Thank You

JoySparks — 2024-02-22 17:17:23 UTC

I Love Hugs Lol

Creola Katherine Johnson By Mrs. Messer

OCVSNEHS — 2024-02-22 19:39:33 UTC

Creola Katherine Johnson was born on August 26, 1918. She was a mathematician and an employee at NASA. Her work at NASA was important to the success of the first spaceflights in the US. Some of her important work included calculating flight trajectories for Project Mercury (1961-1963) and calculating launch windows. In 2015 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama. She was the first African-American woman to work for NASA as a scientist.

Dominique Dawes, in 1996

2024-02-23 06:00:31 UTC

The first African American to win an individual medal in Olympic gymnastics

sara_garsh — 2024-02-26 01:36:51 UTC

The OCVS BSU Club! We missed some members today, but you were with us in spirit!

augusta savage

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